Indonesia Bans Israeli Athletes but Uses Israeli App as Official Transit Guide for Visitors
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Indonesia Bans Israeli Athletes but Uses Israeli App as Official Transit Guide for Visitors
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Indonesia is banning Israeli athletes but uses Israeli technology – the height of hypocrisy!
By: The Tower and United with Israel Staff, United With Israel, August 15 2018
An Israeli startup’s mobile guide has been chosen as the official mobility app for the Asian Games in Indonesia to help millions of fans get to sports competitions at the event from which Israel has been banned since 1981, highlighting the duplicity at the heart of the boycott movement against the Jewish state.
Israel competed at the Asian Games five times—from 1954 to 1974. In 1981, the Asian Games Federation was organized as the Olympic Council of Asia; for political reasons, Israel was excluded and, a year later, banned permanently. Palestinian athletes, however, remain on the roster, Times of Israel reported on Monday.
The Asian Games, held every four years, are hailed as the second-largest multisport event after the Olympics. Teams for 44 countries compete in the tournament, which attracts some three million visitors from all over the world.
During the Asian Games, also known as Asiad, which will take place from August 18 to September 2 in Jakarta and Palembang, Moovit will send out notifications of all transit updates and changes. The app provides real-time transit arrivals and directions, as well as trip plans, service alerts and Get Off Alerts.
“Moovit has the most complete, up-to-date coverage of all modes of transit and lines in Jakarta & Palembang than any other provider,” the company said in a statement. Moovit previously helped organize major sport events, including the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the UEFA EURO 2016.
The crowdsourced public-transportation app, created by an Israeli startup of the same name, has become the world’s most downloaded transit app and has more than 200 million users in 2,500 cities in 82 countries.
Israel has repeatedly encountered discrimination by Muslim countries, specifically those hosting sports events.
An Israeli sportsman was barred entry to a badminton competition hosted by Indonesia in August 2015 and was granted access to the Muslim country only after a long battle. The Badminton World Federation (BWF) was forced to intervene to ensure that the Israeli athlete could secure a visa.
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Nobody should be surprised at the hypocrisy - it's also typical of BDS, the most hypocritical organization in the world as well, demanding boycotts of products invented by Israelis, while using cellphones and computers that include them. As well, that'll be the day when the BDS proponents and the radical Jew-hating Muslims would not take advantage of Israeli medical discoveries, developments and inventions. HYPOCRITES, FUCKING MISERABLE HYPOCRITES.
An NT member previously made an ignorant Israel-bashing anti-Semitic comment in a circumstance like this, posting that Israel would ban Muslim athletes - an accusation that was disproved.
However, the ban of Israeli participants in tournaments and contests is not just to support the Palestinians, it's really because they know the Israelis will beat the ass off them, which will humiliate them, their cause and their country. Lots of examples already exist, such as when they do whatever they can NOT to complete with the Israelis, even forfeiting. Of course the extreme was when the Palestinians slaughtered the Israeli athletes in Munich - the Olympic Committee should have banned them from EVER competing.
Dear Friend Buzz: Reminds me of Jesse Owens in Germany at that Olympics past.
Talk about inconvenient truths!
Thanks for posting this.
Best to call out hypocrisy when and as it rears its ugly head.
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Indonesia is banning Israeli athletes but uses Israeli technology – the height of hypocrisy!
They don't see it that way. It is what it is and I don't know how those who seem to show the most hypocrisy are the biggest hypocrites of all. It's kind of like Antifa fighting Fascism.